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Title of Talk: Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Art and Science of Healing

Speaker: Parago Jones, LAc. (Licensed Acupuncturist) is the Academic Dean and Administrator Director of the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Denver and has been an educator and practitioner in the TCM profession for nearly 25 years

The Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Denver has been operating as a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) school since 1990 and is a national leader in TCM education as an accredited institution. Its programs include two Master's degrees, two Doctorate degrees, and the advanced Doctorate degree which is in Classical Chinese Medicine.

Parago will speak briefly of the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine, its evolution and contemporary functions and uses for the treatment of disease, pain, and more. He will talk about its various therapeutic approaches to the treatment of disease using acupuncture, herbal medicine, and multiple other techniques such as moxibustion (burning of mugwort near or on the body through multiple forms), cupping, electrical stimulation, microsystems, scalp acupuncture, bloodletting, TCM nutrition, and more. He will also speak of the educational requirements for the various degrees in the Chinese medicine profession in the U.S.

This course introduces the history of China, Japan and Korea from 1800 to the present, focusing on political, economic and social changes. It is designed for lower division undergraduates with no background in Asian history. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Term offered: fall. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

China is a fascinating world with its own characteristic orientation to philosophical questions. Chinese thinkers produced the "Flowering of a Hundred Schools of Thought" in the Axial Age, the same period of time in which philosophy was coming to birth in ancient Greece. Covers some of the Chinese schools, including Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Legalis, Chinese "logic," and the later schools of schools of Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Taoism and Chinese Buddhism. Cross-listed with RLST 3660. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

  • CHIN 1000 China and the Chinese

  • CHIN 1010 Introduction to Chinese I

  • CHIN 2110 Second Year Chinese I

  • CHIN 3010 Advanced Intermediate Chinese

  • HIST 3470 Intro to East Asia: Since 1800

  • LING 2000 Foundations of Linguistics

  • LING 3100 Language in Society

  • MLNG 4690 Methods of Teaching Modern Languages

  • PHIL 3981 Chinese Philosophy and Culture